Women, Beware the Devil London Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (11)
See it if you like beautifully staged historical performances with exceptional women led cast
Don't see it if you don’t like loud and messy plays
See it if Production and cast are both excellent. The second act is a disjointed mess that keeps flying off in different directions, never resolved.
Don't see it if Don't expect logic or realism.
See it if You love things about witchcraft in Old England. Also see it if you want to see GREAT acting!
Don't see it if You're very religious or easily offended. Also, if the sight of blood affects you!
See it if you want a delightfully dark, surprisingly funny and sublimely acted play.
Don't see it if you’re easily confused. The first half largely succeeds but the second half has too many threads going on for its own good. Read more
See it if You just enjoy theatre! The staging is clever and the costumes are fabulous.
Don't see it if Well, honestly it was very silly so don’t go if you prefer straight drama. It’s pretty funny at times but not really my cup of tea.
See it if you like theatrical experiences that are not easy to classify or explain, covering several themes, directed with visual flare and well acted
Don't see it if you don't care for weird plays that have many tonal shifts, stage blood, or plays where it's not clear what the point of it all real is.
See it if your into a mixture of history and relevance
Don't see it if you don't like dark thrillers
See it if You want a entertaining play that doesn’t quite know what it wants to be, part satire, part comedy of manners, part supernatural thriller
Don't see it if You don’t enjoy period theatre
Critic Reviews (12)
“Rupert Goold doesn't maintain his directorial grip on the script. It begs an interesting question: given that the text is so quick to capitulate between feminist-tinged black humour and serious meditation on gender politics one cannot help but wonder whether a female director would have been better suited to execute it.”
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“The shape-shifting audacity of the play makes it exciting to watch, if ultimately confounding...This is a wild ride with the Devil. And if anyone can conjure up a theory that explains it all, I’d love to hear it.”
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“...it’s never less than entertaining, a wickedly funny study of women and wickedness and wickedness in women. Infernally good stuff.”
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"If it is a failure, it is a heroic one, performing the rare feat of leaving this critic impressed, exasperated but temporarily speechless."
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"The devil is in the detail and that’s lacking, the second half a melee of plotting and talking. It’s hard, finally, to care as the power struggle intensifies. A case of buyer, beware."
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“The plotting is so erratic that I began to wonder if I had fallen asleep during key scenes... I apologise for such a vague summary, but there were long stretches when I honestly had little idea of what was going on.”
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"The play needs greater cunning and more significant horror, too. It’s all well and good for a show to chance the word “boo” but not if one’s response to the scare tactics is a mere shrug."
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“The devil, as they say, is in the detail, and this play is far too nebulous. It is not quite diabolical; but it needs a hell of a lot more work.”
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